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Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Wed May 18 20:38:46 2011

Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 17:36:05 -0700
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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  On 18/05/11 5:10 PM, Dorn Hetzel wrote:
>
>
>         Sure, but I'm guessing that something like that 80% of the
>         content that 80% of people watch *is* available on some
>         satellite/cable channel.
>
>
>     Yes, but most isn't available "over the air" with rabbit ears and
>     a DVR.  One of the big appeals of Netflix is the $8/month for all
>     you can eat versus ~$40-60 for various cable and satellite packages.
>
>     jc
>
>
> But it's not really $8/month, it's 8$ plus broadband. 

But I have broadband already.  To get Satellite or Cable it's another 
$40-60/month, to get Netflix it's another $8/month.

jc




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